Pioneering Crab Boat F/V North American Sinks at the Pier

On Tuesday morning, a well-known Bering Sea crab fishing vessel sank at a pier on the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Seattle. 

Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received a call about the casualty at 0730 hours Tuesday morning. The crabber North American had partially sunk alongside a pier on the south side of the canal, east of the Ballard Bridge. 

Responders from Seattle Fire installed a containment boom around the vessel to prevent petroleum pollution, and a dive team is working...